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06/19/2003 Archived Entry: "Top stories!!"
Top Stories!!
As I usually do, I have CNN on the television while I go about my day's work, and I have yo be honest and tell you that these guys have raised frivolity to a high art.
Americans are dying in Iraq, and they give us Martha Stewart's court appearance.
The country is being bled dry economically, and they give us Harry Potter.
Civil rights are being eroded, and they give us Ashton and Demi.
Wolf Blitzer is damn lucky he doesn't live around here. If he did, I swear I'd drive over to his house and slap him silly, however redundant that would be.
Replies: 6 people speak up
Now Harry Potter may be trivial to you, but to some it has become a religion. And to others, well, it seems to insult their religion. I would say if you belong to the second group, you also most likely think that Bush is doing a great job and that Saddam was personally flying one of the 9-11 planes before the Devil magicked him back to Iraq at the last minute so he could party down with J.K Rowling.
Don't belittle the importance of Potter (especially to the economy...more people will spend more money on Potter come Friday night at midnight than anything else...just ask my wife)
Posted by MercuryX23 @ 06/19/2003 01:38 PM NY
Mercury,
I don't think it's that Harry Potter is insignificant, I for one think that it just should not be a news priority above the economy, the war, the lying Furious George, or about any event or process that threatens our democracy...
This is not to say that Harry Potter isn't cool, entertaining or even uplifting for millions of people, but that's a fiction story; and unfortunately, that's the stuff the news people want to cover.
Posted by Memorybanker @ 06/19/2003 01:56 PM NY
Blah3, may I ask a small favor of you?
After you smack Wolf Blitzer, might I beat him severely with an iron pipe? Yes, I know that may sound a bit extreme to some of your readers, but I'm in a really pissy mood today.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/19/2003 02:25 PM NY
At CNN, I don't think they can tell the difference between fiction and news. I'm surprised they have any *reporters* at all, not that I think Wolfie qualifies anyway.
Posted by lonestar @ 06/19/2003 02:30 PM NY
Memorybanker,
I agree that the world and the lying lying bastards who are trying desperately to destroy it should be top news. They should be reporting every minute of every day about how much damage is being done and that we have been deceived time and again and that the media has been insidiously complicit in the deceit. That being said, however, the biggest opening day book sale of all time is news (I'd much rather hear about Potter than Scott Peterson or Martha Stewart who are decidedly unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Potter news is very temporal.
As for the greatest fictions, well, I think Bushco's got Potter beat by a long shot (Hogwarts being somewhat more real than the WMD's at this time)
Posted by MercuryX23 @ 06/19/2003 02:55 PM NY
why not put on c-span instead of the clowns at cnn? there isn't one person at cnn i believe to tell me the weather anymore..
Posted by jeff @ 06/19/2003 04:13 PM NY
